Happy New Year

This is what Guruji spoke about the New Year (last year) in a conference:

In this new year, make sure no event, no instance, no situation can put down your enthusiasm, your joy and your commitment. Many events may happen that may try to put down your spirit. Like a candle when it is lid, it keeps its spirit always up. Even if you turn the candle up-side down the flame will always go up. Like that don’t hold any grouch against anybody. Be flexible flow with the events. Pleasant, unpleasant things happen in life. So let this New Year teach us whatever lesson it want to teach us. With this strength, confidence move ahead. Not wishing that only nice and goody-goody things should happen to us. Whatever happens in this New Year, one thing we are not going to loose is our enthusiasm, our strength and our commitment to truth and knowledge!

With Love,
Anurag

The invitation...

One more creation in Microsoft Publisher! Look at this new year celebration invitation, I like the color combination and Gurudev's message on it:

Last December Gurudev's pearls on New Year in a conference:

A candle when it is lid, it keeps it’s spirit always up. Even if you turn the candle up side down the flame will always go up. So let this New Year teach us whatever lesson it want to teach us. With this strength and confidence move ahead, not wishing that only nice and goody-goody things should happen to us. Whatever happens in this New Year one thing we are not going to loose is our enthusiasm, our strength and our commitment to knowledge!

-Gurudev

Learing in potatoes cutting

Finished my 10th Advance course today, after doing it only I realized how badly I needed it. I promised to my self to sit in an advance course every three month. Afterall the deeper peace, joy, and the unbounded freedom is what we are doing everything for.

Let me share one incidence of the course with you. I was cutting potatoes with few other course participants. I was struggling little bit as potatoes were big in size and I did not realize that my knife wasn’t shape enough. The lady sitting next to me realized this she offer me another knife, which made my job really easy and smooth. Suddenly I was producing chopped potatoes at a very fast rate. After 5-10 minutes another course participant joined me with a vegetable cutter and starting chopping potatoes at a much faster rate. This continued for 10 minutes and then two other lady participants got interested in our service and took over completely. Hence I was free to take some other work.

Now this sounds like a strange story, what is there in it and why I’m telling this story to you?

There are subtle learning and messages in this whole set of events. First “Lady helped me with sharper knife”. There are two messages in it; first if things are not working for you, you aren’t facing the challenges of life with smoothness. Know that you need to sharpen your instruments, which in case of our life is our own mind. Second, if you don’t realize that the very instrument you are using has a problem and someone else realize it for you. Accept their help.

“Another course participant joined with fast chopper”, if someone better than you join you. Welcome them in, and be a team and work together. It helps you become better and grow.

“two other lady participants took over”, message is, once you become brilliant in doing something. Look for your replacement, support them to replace you so that you can move on and take on other assignment.

-Love Anurag

Unconditional Enthusiasm Personified: Sharda Ji

It was her birthday on 6th of this month. Although I missed it, but I don't want to miss on her praise that she thoroughly deserve. Anyone who worked in UP know that it not the easiest place to do social reformation and transformation work. It is actually challenging. Despite all this, she is coordinating whole UP from last around 5 years and her conviction and enthusiasm never goes down, infact everytime I talk to her, I find her more energetic.




Sagar me ek lahar uthi tere naam ki,
Tujhe mubarak kushiyan aatm gyan ki!

Our dearest Sharda Didi.

With Love and Regards,
Anurag Arora

Fun in doing some creative stuff: Course Poster

First time I used Microsoft Office's Publisher. I found it really handy. Although some of the stuff I had to do Word and copied it to Publisher.
Guruji says that everyday we must find some time for these creative activities. Like writing a poem, painting, some creative art work etc!





With Love,
Anurag

Now its our turn to restore!!!

LORD MACAULAY'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 2 FEBRUARY



173 years they are working on this....

Love,
Anurag Arora

Fundoo software to learn and perform Agnihotra

This is an amazing software that makes it very easy for you to learn and perform Agnihotra!

It takes your location as input and based on that prompts you at exact Sunrise and sunset time everyday.

At the sunrise and sunset time, the software actually plays mantra for you.
It also has an amazing tutorial to teach you mantra!



So no more setting the watch and looking at the chart.

So if u have interest in performing Agnihotra, take a look at this software
"Agnihotra for Windows" from Vedic Society.

To view the item click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your web browser:
http://www.vedicsociety.org/agnihotra-for-windows-p-99agnihotra/share/.html

Vedic Society
http://www.vedicsociety.org/

When Master steps in...

Shriprakash has written this beautiful poem after his advance course in German Ashram
enjoy!




When Master steps in,
through the corridors of mind,
into the heart,
it is said,
seeking stops and blooming begins,
and i say,
blooming stops and completion happens ...

When Master steps in,
with a flower of Love,
the bee like i,
stops buzzing forever,
and intoxication happens ...

When Master steps in,
with the fire of Truth,
to ignite the candle of Being within,
the jewels of knowledge and ignorance fade away,
and i say,
everything is burnt into Silence ...

When Master steps in,
the cosmos have no value,
and i say,
there is no room for myself anymore,
as there is only the Master,
and nothing else ...

And so it happens,
when Master steps in ...

Petition to the Prime Minister

Dear All,

Lets come together to save the nation. This petition not only affects the trekker or rock climber or birder or photographer but to every common man. WE all need to act immediately.....and tell the politicians 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH". We need ACTION NOW !!!

Pl. find below the link to the petition which outlines the minimum action that is expected of the government. Idea is to present a humungous amount of signatures (minimum 1 million, if the media participates unitedly, this no. can go upto even 20-30 million)

A group of people from cross-section of the society (hopefully backed by a large rally and media coverage) will present this petition to the Prime Minister around the 15 December asking for a formal reply from the Government to the action expected by the public and the time frames within which the action should be expected.

Requesting not only your signature on the petition but also your support to forward this to all your friends. Should your organisation be maintaining any email databases, request your support to mass email this petition request to all on your database.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/26novAct/petition.html

Many Thanks,

Hapy and Healthy Family Sutras

Last Saturday 29^th November, It was my younger brother’s marriage. Lots of time was spent in family events and it me think about our our marriage system(specially in north of India). Current system has really become very stressful and uninteresting. Hundreds of variety of generally unhealthy food which most of my relatives (with list of diseases) were eating with total indulgence. Very loud noise of local DJ which most guests say “music required for dancing” was actually very unfriendly to the ears and heads. Both bride and groom families spent their hard earned money in useless and unwanted things and ways.

Any ways… it made me think about a set of guide-lines that a family must follow in order to be a happy, healthy and peaceful family. Here is a formula:
1. Every member of family must practice asanas, pranayama, sudershan Kriya and meditation for 30-45 minutes everyday, preferably after bath in morning. More specifically:

• Youngsters below 18 should practice for 20-30 minutes
• Youngsters above 18 should practice for 30-40 minutes
• Married people above 18 should practice for 45-60 minutes

2. 7-10% of total family income should be donated to the people and organizations doing social and spiritual upliftment work. More specifically, at least one person of the family should actively contribute by devoting his/her time and mind to such work of service.

3. All family members should get together for 20-30 minutes in evening and sing the Sanskrit hymns from Vedas or very simple songs glorifying the divinity. Chant and sing with feelings and heart to glorify that higher existence within. Simply rejoice the singing and not to get into to many words and asking favors for God etc.

4. Deep belief and faith in divinity, in saints and wise masters should be nurtured in every member of the family. Practicing 1, 2 and 3 will help in developing the deep faith and belief.
5. Ayurvedic life style is to be adopted in eating and living habits:

• Every family member to know their prakriti (basic body-mind constitution) and vikuriti (current distortions in basic body-mind complex). Eating patterns is be in accordance with your prakriti.
• Allopathic medical system is to be kept away and avoided as much as possible.
• 70% satavik (fresh vegetables, fruits, pure vegetarian and home cooked food) and 20-30% rajasik (sweets, spices, cakes etc) foods is to be consumed. Tamsik food like Tobacco, alcoholic drinks, non-vegetarian food including eggs and cold drinks are NOT to be consumed at all.

Love, Anurag